Function of the Msx2 gene in the morphogenesis of the skull

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 785, Issue , 1996, Pages 48-58

  Liu, Yi Hsin ^a   Ma, Liang ^a   Kundu, Ramendra ^a   Ignelzi, Michael ^a   Sangiorgi, Frank ^a   Wu, Lanying ^a   Luo, Wen ^b   Snead, Malcolm L ^b   Maxson, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CALVARIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PHENOTYPE; SKULL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029742722     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb56243.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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